Give your pupils the best start in reading with Spotty Zebra!

An exciting KS1 (P1 – P3) guided reading programme offering a holistic, integrated approach towards teaching across the curriculum. Spotty Zebra not only teaches children how to read, but also how to get the most out of reading.

Inspire imaginative play in early years

Spotty Zebra has been designed to provide you with reading resources to help develop speaking and listening skills, inspire play and provide comprehensive teacher support.

Spotty Zebra Resources

Community Books and Artefacts

Introduce children to ‘reading behaviour’ with these unique books use an innovative and engaging text design to inspire young learners.

• Engage readers with high interest topics without being constrained by any reading difficulties
• Develop speaking and listening skills
• Includes useful prompts to engage different use of speech such as exploratory, role play and structured conversation.

Reading Books

Spotty Zebra Reading Books include varied plot lines, text structures, design and language features that will challenge pupils to engage with the books content encouraging readers to seek meanings, both literal and inferential.

• Promote learning with stories that reflect children’s interests, knowledge and life experiences, enabling them to make the connection between the text and their own experiences.
• Encourage pupils to become active learners with texts that encourage the development of reading strategies.

Guided Reading Notes - FREE with each six pack of Reading Books

Each six pack of texts includes a free set of Guided Reading Notes. The notes offer a 'profile' of the books, such as text characteristics, which allows you to accurately match texts to pupils.

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